History of Semiconductor Engineering

• Main Author: Lojek, Bo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: History.; Computer industry.; Solid state physics.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; History of Science.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Solid State Physics.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; The Computer Industry.

When basic researchers started working on semiconductors during the late nineteen thirties and on integrated circuits at the end of the nineteen fifties, they did not know that their work would change the lives of future generations. Very few people at that time recognized the significance of, perha...